Сокровища Непобедимой Армады

The famous Belgian underwater archaeologist with a fascinating story about how the Invincible Armada perished and with an equally fascinating story about how he searched for and found one of the ships of the Armada, the galleas Chiron, off the coast of Ireland.

The story of the commander of the Girona, one of the noblest Spanish hidalgos, Don Alonso de Leyva, is incredibly tragic - twice he was wrecked on his ships and survived. And so he switched to the third one - “Chirona”, on which he completely died. But they say a shell does not fall into the same crater twice.

The history of the Armada turns out to be a story of pure adventure - given the state of the armies and navies at that time, even a country like Spain could not afford an aggressive expedition of such a scale. From the very beginning, the Armada lacked money and ships. Drake dealt her a preliminary fatal blow by sinking ships with good wood for barrels. As a result, the water in bad barrels rotted. In general, there was nothing invincible in this Armada - and the British should not be overly proud of its defeat.

The search for gold on the Chiron is very funny and how the researchers fought off attacks from the local scuba divers club, which was trying to get at least something.

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